Suggestibility, Expectancy, Trance State Effects, and Hypnotic Depth: II. Assessment via the PCI-HAP

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 291-318

  Pekala, Ronald J ^a   Kumar, V K ^b   Maurer, Ronald ^a   Elliott Carter, Nancy ^a   Moon, Edward ^a   Mullen, Karen ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altered states of consciousness; Consciousness; Expectancy; Hypnosis; Hypnotic depth; Hypnotism; Psychophenomenology; Suggestibility; Trance

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; SUGGESTION;

AWARENESS; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SUGGESTION;

EID: 77954496439     PISSN: 00029157     EISSN: 21600562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00029157.2010.10401733     Document Type: Article

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